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Well, maybe they'll become 4 piece again and make good music again that didn't sounds similiar one album to another.
 
Kind of weird they gotta cancelled shows cos of this though, weren't they toured without Hazuki the vocalist when he was hospitalized or something before?
 

Visual Kei is a minority in it's own country. Sorry to burst your bubble, pal

No way. Japan seems like a shit place to live for someone who's individualistic/doesn't drink

This already confused me for a long long time and each time, I think, why the hell does it appear in ]JAPANESE MUSIC] forum part.

BTW
VISUAL KEI IS VISUAL KEI
However it can be maybe annoying to get fooled if a band is not "Japanese Visual Kei"

So please read:
 
By bands such as DISREIGN and also solo artist such as Yohio, the Visual Kei news forum get mixed by Japanese, Chinese, etc Kei.
Since its also in the forum "JAPANESE MUSIC" <- then you also think YOU GET NEWS ONLY ABOUT JAPANESE MUSIC, by Japanese artist.
However, some bands moved to Japan.... but is a based band also really Japanese?  and not simple still GLOBAL?!
While Lilith news topic appears in the GLOBAL MUSIC FORUM, even if they are also Visual Kei and play a lot in Japan.  But okay they still do live in China.
 
However DOOMBOX SAID:
Then you still get kinda fuckt, because you think you get Japanese but you get foreign.
It's like you think you get cookies but in the end you get totally something different. ->  then I prefer a TAG (in the topic title) to say that it's actually not "real" Japanese.

So Visual Kei bans around the world are plopping up, I want to suggest 2 options.
 
That all news about visual kei  foreign origin bands simple goes inside the GLOBAL MUSIC forum .  (whenever they are based in Japan or not)
Or To add an extra topic [TAG] inside the topic title for those bands  who decide to live in Japan
TAGS could be
[FOREIGN VK]
[CHINESE VK]
[FINLAND VK]
[NORWAY VK]
[SPAIN VK]
[GERMAN VK]
 
 
 
 
I personally don't care if a foreign artist sings in Japanese, or if they live in Japan, or if their music is amazing or not. As so long the members aren't BORN in Japan, then I don't call it "Japanese Visual Kei". I still do call it Visual Kei. And I also can enjoy their music very much. However personal I prefer it to have it an extra tag, where the band dudes are from.
For me it's confusing if a non-Japanese band such as DISREIGN with 0 real Japanese member appears in the JROCK MUSIC FORUM, Visual Kei news forum part. If you search for Japanese bands only, if you only want to read about Japanese kei, or if you simply want to avoid anything YOHIO is doing. You simply click each time on the news topic which you don't wanna visit.  Of course you can close it right away.
I also call "IN A SCAR" [SPAIN VK] or back then "Cinema Bizarre" [GERMAN VK]. Even if they would move to Japan, I would still call them like that.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to bash any band. I really can enjoy GLOBAL Visual Kei. But if it's GLOBAL visual kei, I prefer to know each time from WHICH country they are. Also when they decided to LIVE in JAPAN. 
 
I don't care if the vocalist or a guitarist,drummer is someone from overseas, and that all other members are Japanese.  Then its still Japanese visual kei for me.
But if more than 2+ members aren't Japanese and aren't born in Japan, then well.. it feels as a Japanese who play with foreigner. XD
 
 
I wonder if I only think  like this.
So what you all think?

^Plot twist: they're all feminists protesting the patriarchy by showing that female rock bands can make more money and get away with more nonsense if they pretend to be men pretending to be women instead of actual women. It's all coming together!

try Demon Android's blog

there has never been a download section
you are imagining things!  

for historical purposes
 

Ooooooh I hate MH so much! Lemme just... just... check it a little...

If I can be frank for a second, I'm disappointed how easily distracted people are.
 
It's only been two days and there are already countless arguments about the merits and harms of file sharing. That doesn't address the real point of why we are currently in the situation we are in right now. Our hand was played and the staff was not happy. One member who goes by the name of @Kawaii_Minpha decided it would be cute to troll the staff and the website by threatening to report us to the RIAJ unless we gave in to her demands, which among other things called for banning members she does not like. If you read the messages sent to us, it turns from funny to sad in an instant. What pisses me off personally is how someone would try to ruin what we have going here for kicks. Even threatening to do so is worthy of an instant ban and I should not have to explain why.
 
As an aside, I don't really care how you feel about file sharing - facts are that if you are here, you are guilty by association - but these last few days have proven that without Monochrome Heaven there's nowhere for anyone to go. Downloads can always find a new home but to find another place where you can have mature, constructive discussions about Japanese music in an open environment will be much harder. And that place could never exist without free music so people can talk about it, because the barrier for entry is too high. We have to recognize the role that piracy plays in all our lives. That's why saying "buy music to support your favorite artists" is not the be all, end all answer. It's a good answer, but it's more complicated than that. No one here woke up one day and decided to buy Dir en grey albums on a whim. Japanese bands became our favorite bands because we pirated music long enough to become devoted enough to pay for it. Some people are at different stages of their fandom. This website has found the perfect balance of both piracy and discussion while also managing to be inclusive of all styles of Japanese music and there's nowhere else on the internet that even comes close to this. That's awesome.
 
That's why this situation has the staff thinking about what we exist for. This website may not mean much to many members here beyond downloads but the staff has poured countless hours of time and energy into investing in the website and the community. Are we harming the scene? Yeah, no doubt. But we probably do a lot of good as well. With the countless messages I've gotten over the last few days about "where all the free music went" I'm not convinced we can do good without doing some harm as well. The tools are not in place to promote visual kei globally without piracy, and I doubt there ever will be. The scene wouldn't be what it is today if it weren't for all of us here. We either take the good with the bad or abstain entirely.
 
There is more to this website than just downloads and the constant activity over the last few days proves that this community is strong. Stronger than even we may have realized ourselves. This is awesome, keep up the good work! Having said that, I've thought a lot about Kevin from Batsu and how he freaked out and deleted the download section when he thought the feds were coming for him. His approach was blunt, but I understand how he felt. He figured Batsu could weather the storm and would be better for it...and that unfortunately did not work out. If push came to shove we would make a similar decision, and that's why for the last two years we have been working hard to provide other reasons for people to come back here. While the download section is offline I implore you all to go check out the News, Rumors, Review, and General sections to start. There's enough tea there to keep you sipping until things are finalized.
 
The staff is still ironing out the details so expect more information soon. I can confidently say that the news will come as a shock to everyone but some people will not notice and others will.
 
Consider this an early morning rant.

New self-titled record from Russian post rock/black metal band Show Me A Dinosaur.
This variant is called "Heart of a Star". Maybe one of my favorite colors everrr
 

It's simple, to access the Downloads section you just need to [YOU NEED A MONOCHROME-HEAVEN PREMIUM ACCOUNT TO ACCESS THIS CONTENT]

The Oral Cigarettes...like how else would you smoke? With your ass?

Jesus loves you all very much.

Let's talk about the erections instead. lol

Let's talk about the erections instead. lol

For the love of god social media, please stfu about the elections.
I've already established that you think I'm too retarded to know how to vote.
Spamming my email and favorite streaming services with horseshit, making me feel how big of a dumbass I am if I vote for the opposition.
 
I already know the election is rigged harder than my dick this morning, so please, just STFU.
 

@violetchainThe bandname alone makes me want to laugh hysterically.

teach me senpai
 
I'm not really actively studying Japanese atm, but I do tend to look up certain phrases and study up on some katakana to read band/character names ;w;
 
http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/katakana.htm
This is what I've been using to study katakana. The main site has a multilingual keyboard where you can also input characters of other languages (like Arabic, German, etc.), but on the Japanese onscreen keyboard, it shows what the characters mean, like モ for "mo", etc. You can scroll down to the bottom half of the page, where it'll show instructions, and also has an option to convert the katakana text to romaji (you can also do this with kanji and hiragana texts)~ There's also a page for kanji and hiragana, although kanji is much more complex since you have to type the sound of the first kanji rather than get help from an onscreen keyboard.
 
https://twitter.com/mlcjapanese
This Twitter account not only shares lessons on characters, but also of casual and formal phrases~ Like they'll put up a phrase in Japanese, and then rewrite it in Romaji and English. They also tweet about homophones, vocabulary, formal and casual speech, and show videos of short quizzes. They also offer quizzes via email, and even Skype sessions. I'd totally take some quizzes if I had the time or motivation ;w;

In big ben ~heaven 

How hard can it be to get a fucking payable room in Munich?! Almost 2 months left to find something and move or ending homeless... Fuck. -.-

i can definitely see how this is, which is part of the reason why i'm afraid of starting one. but i'm also more worried about hurting the other party than myself.....
 
i've also been kind of friend-deprived lately and need somebody to be around with, doesn't necessarily have to be a love relationship, i guess. being alone for too long is unhealthy. but if i ever think seriously about starting a love relationship though i still think i should build some maturity and widen my knowledge anyway.

Since I'm late, I've been doing at least 3 whenever I find the time... so I did 3 more last night. I didn't get to do all days, but that's okay, it sure was fun! : 3
 
 

Yaaaay, Moon Jumper!! This was inspired by Uchuu Kyoudai manga <3
 

 

Buster-kun from the pillows!
 
This guy:
 
 

I've never been in a relationship either. I like having a lot of alone time, and I have some very good friends who are also eternally single, so I'm not depressed about it or anything, but I do wonder what I've been missing out on sometimes.
 
It's tough to even imagine dating though, since I'm super shy, oblivious, and I work 99% from home, so I basically never meet anyone new. Even when I go out to events or take classes, almost all of the people I feel comfortable talking to are either female, double my age or in a relationship, so I doubt I'm going to have much luck unless I get a more social job or take up some less stereotypically feminine hobbies. (I took classes on sewing and botanical watercolour painting, so in hindsight, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that the students were almost all middle-aged women. )
 
Oh well, I think I'm probably still too spoiled to date someone right now anyway. I feel like I've grown up a bit since moving to the city, so maybe next year I'll feel a bit more confident.